This Technocratic Town - Watching Static AI Circa 2025 In Watching Static, the television hums like a low grade oracle. The protagonist sits before it, passive, absorbed, anesthetised, until the balance tips. The screen begins to look back. This is a town where surveillance has outlived purpose, where technology no longer informs but observes, catalogues, mirrors. The broadcast fractures into pulses of static, flicker, signal bleed, content emptied of meaning yet heavy with control. The TV does not entertain, it studies. It knows the room better than the person inside it. The video loops in on itself, watcher and watched locked in a closed circuit, a feedback system with no exit. Identity dissolves into noise. Agency erodes into habit. The static becomes the message. As part of the ongoing project This Technocratic Town, this work captures a quiet, insidious moment, no riots, no alarms, just the soft violence of compliance. A portrait of modern living where the screen never switches off, and the town is always watching back.